Obama’s ‘Golden’ Standard for Religion Destroys ‘Peaceful Islam’ Myth

A clear trend emerges when President Obama discusses religion. When discussing Islam, it is within the sole context of a “peaceful religion.” When discussing other religions, it is within the context of their once having fostered hatred and violence, as he said at the National Prayer Breakfast and the Summit to Counter Violent Extremism (SCVE).

 

Obama’s Prayer Breakfast speech proffered the Crusades as an example of Christian violence (“people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ”). He failed to note that many Crusade battles involved Christians defending themselves against Muslim aggression, which initiated the Crusades.

 

At the SVCE, Obama again hit the “all-religions-possess-equal opportunity haters” theme: “…acts of violence have been committed against people of different faiths, by people of different faiths…”

 

The media has irresponsibly failed to challenge Obama’s claim that global “violent extremism” today is not linked directly to Islam alone, even after he gave a “gold standard” for measuring a religion’s equanimity that Islam fails.

 

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